I don’t know about you but I love the new Apache Flex logo. And when I saw it I couldn’t help but see that the shape was similar to a mathematical Rose. So of course I spent way, WAY, too much time futzing around with values until I could create a rough representation using Away3D 4.0.

If your curious the Apache Flex logo = 2.0 + 1.6 * Math.cos( i * 4 );

Creating the shape of the logo was pretty easy. But getting the colors to change the way they do took a chunk of work. I went through a handful of different approaches until I finally settled on what you see. It isn’t exact but you get the idea, right?

This was also my first expedition into the land of Away3D 4.0 beta. Quite a bit different than 3.6. I’m looking forward to spending some good quality time with 4.0 and redoing a lot of my previous work done in 3.6 including my entire Away3D 101 series. Converting everything over will be a good exercise in understanding the changes between the two versions of Away3D.